Tag Archive: Financial Advisors

Mar
25

How Long Does It Take To Prepare For the Series 7 Certification?

Today, I was presenting an investment seminar on indexed investing to a group of South East Asian based school teachers.  Most of them were Americans. I mentioned that the minimum requirement in the United States, in order to sell investment products, was a Series 7 certification. Two financial sales representatives were among the attendees.  And …

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Oct
25

Financial planning – Whom should you trust?

Rob Carrick, a finance writer for the Globe and Mail, doesn’t seem to favour using investment advisors.  Is he right?  I don’t really know for sure.  But he answers some interesting questions here: Read the Article: Financial planning – Whom should you trust?

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Aug
06

Investment advisory services plunder individual retirement accounts

I’ve always been a fan of Scott Burns’ finance articles, and this one is no exception. He paints an ugly picture of financial service fees relative to investor’s returns, suggesting that fees are significantly higher today, than in the past, relative to the return that the average investor is getting from their financial products. As …

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Jul
29

German geriatrics kidnap and torture their financial advisor

Always a guy with a great sense of humour, Ian McGugan, the editor of MoneySense Magazine,  found something for his blog that would make any investment advisor cringe–especially those who have lost plenty of their client’s money during the downturn: Read the article 

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